Research 
For this proposal, your three big questions are going
to be (1) "What courses should be offered to students
at my school?" (2) "How much student interest
is there for adding courses in technology subjects?"
and (3) "What are the options for how to make
these courses available to students at my school?"
(1) What courses should be offered
to students at my school? Research other high school course offerings
to get some ideas. Some examples include:
- HTML, DHTML and Scripting
- Working the Web
- Business Systems and Technology
- Computer Programming
Basic
- AP Computer Science
(2) How
much student interest is there for adding courses
in technology subjects? Organize
a campaign to find out your classmates' interest in
enrolling in technology courses. Share the list of
course titles you have collected and collect signatures
of students who are very interested. It is likely that
you will need to have a certain number of interested
students to justify the cost of adding a course at
your school.
(3) What are the options for
how to make these courses available to students at
my school? There
are three possibilities that you should look into.
- Adding a course at your school
- Add the option of
Distance Learning or online courses through companies
such as Apex
Learning
- Take a course at a local community college.
Look up resources in Technology & Learning
to find out about some online high school courses
and
to research how other schools have approached this
same problem.
Browse the SVRC Success Stories for advice from the
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